While High and Dry focuses on clashes of principles and personalities, especially in the courtroom, it remains very much a story about a river and its world in an arid region. There are irrigators her
Mildred Clark Cusey was a whore, a madam, an entrepreneur, and above all, a survivor. The story of Silver City Millie, as she referred to herself, is the story of one woman's personal tragedies and tr
Libby and her brother have been fighting, but they find common ground while spending spring break with their grandparents near Santa Fe, New Mexico, participating in cultural events surrounding Easter
How best to capture the magic we students experienced in Sally Bartalot's art classes? In the end we realized that Sally's magic is best illustrated by her students' work, along with her lesson plans,
Despite the significant role they have played in Texas history for nearly four hundred years, the Lipan Apaches remain among the least studied and least understood tribal groups in the West. Considere
Folklorist Rosa Medina investigates a purported government agency that is cloning monsters--a combination of Chupacabras and aliens--intended to take over the world.
Many of the Germans who came to the United States in the nineteenth century ventured far beyond the Atlantic coast to seek their fortunes. Tomas Jaehn examines the experiences of those Germans who set
From his childhood in West Texas to his adolescence as a cowboy in northeastern New Mexico, from D-Day in World War II to the wild world of Hollywood, Max Evans has truly lived many lifetimes. Peppere
This unusual book is more than a guide; it is a showcase for the remarkable beauty and diversity of New Mexico's mountains. A profile of each major range offers intriguing information about its format
In this bilingual story of faith, don Jacobo has a dream that, in the end, is a reminder that miracles do happen.Don Jacobo is teaching his visiting grandson Andres how to become a santero. Christmas
Rance Hood was born in southern Oklahoma to a Comanche mother and white father. Most of his early youth was spent with his Comanche grandparents who taught him in the traditional ways, including their
La Frontera Publishing presents Outlaws and Lawmen, a collection of the latest fictional short stories about the Old West from America's newest Western writers. Sit back and enjoy great short story fi
A few years after his release from a North Vietnamese prisoner-of-war camp in 1973, Colonel Joseph Kittinger retired from the Air Force. Restless and unchallenged, he turned to ballooning, a lifelong
This riveting true story recounts the author's journey on horseback across Arizona and New Mexico, retracing Coronado's desperate search for the legendary Seven Cities of Gold. First published in 1992
The first account of a unique American folk art, this pioneering book is based on exhaustive research and describes the tools, materials, and processes of tinwork. The authors explain how to date New
Despite women's loss in her culture of many traditional roles--notably that of Corn Woman--upon European contact and their scarcity in tribal histories, Pesantubbee (Native American religious traditio
In the 19th century artists flocked to Colorado, drawn to the world-renowned styles such as realism and impressionism, but their successors in the early 20th century were resistant to another Old Wor
When thirteen-year-old Robert "Skeeter" Tates, fed up with his Yankee stepfather and stepbrothers, leaves his Arkansas home for Texas in 1867, he meets up with unexpected traveling companions as well
This large-format book serves to showcase the photographs of Craig Varjabedian, and the state of New Mexico. The photographs are landscape images of the state, with a few portraits, all in high-contra
Internationally known as a writer, hostess, and patron of the arts of the twentieth century, Mabel Dodge Luhan (1879–1962) is not known for her experiences with venereal disease, unmentioned in her fo
